in broadcasting live coverage from the heart of moscow from our central moscow studios this is our t.v. glad to have you with us on the debt crisis rages on both sides of the atlantic as eight european banks failed stress tests for their vulnerability to financial troubles while america nears its fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling and. rupert murdoch floods the british media with i'm sorry message of the days before a grilling by m.p.'s over the news of the world phone hacking scandal meanwhile the

fear of moves across the atlantic with reports of nine eleven victims the phones were targeted as well as continuing outrage and a disgrace engulfs has once impregnable media empire. and preparation work is underway to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river and the operation is aimed at shedding more light on why the vessel sank with the loss of around one hundred thirty lives. while either governments cut back spending to tackle debts that refused to budge europeans themselves are less convinced that they should pay for the mistakes of banks and politicians next we hear from a u.k. trade union leader who says the public won't take this without a fight. today i'm talking to mark hughes one of the brains behind the thirtieth of june

nationwide strikes in the u.k. he's head of the public and commercial services union thanks for talking to r.t. today now this is possible to plan to cut public spending in this country just how drastic are these cuts going to be gives an impression of what they might mean for the biggest that most people will have seen in their lifetime. i mean half a million jobs lost in the public sector six hundred thousand jobs in the private sector as a direct result we're seeing changes in the delivery of welfare cuts in funding of education for for young people and also a tax on people's pensions in addition to many of the communities up and down the country will see libraries close cuts in social care services everything that people have taken for granted over years is ultimately addressed you seem to see these cuts in terms of rights and wrong almost a moral position but isn't there a bottom line that has to be respected for example they didn't reform and soon it

looks like they might be able to afford teachers or nurses the u.k. economy isn't greece this is the fifth largest economy in the world and if you look at historically the british economy for fifty consecutive years from one thousand nine hundred on words our debt as a proportion of our g.d.p. was double what it is now then we millions of houses schools hospitals well first recognise and actually economically these cuts now if you will make it worse far better to cut the deficit by employing people who don't pay tax and insurance rather than throw them onto welfare where i actually don't depress the economy and we can make things worse you've said that the government cuts are now just attack on working people but how do you think the strikes you're proposing will affect the ruling classes. what having three quarters of a million people from four different unions on strike is something how this hasn't happened in this country for decades it's the start finish to the government is will come back in the autumn when we may well see millions of people on strike so

the idea is to build pressure so the government realize that working people the length and breadth of the u.k. are not just going to let them get away with what they're doing and we believe that pressure can force them to change direction the government's bill for pensions at the moment is around thirty billion pounds which does seem excessive a lot of money how do you suggest that they would you say. i don't think they should reduce it i'm quite clear that retirement of people. where you don't have to struggle to make ends meet should be what we aspire for in the fifth richest country in the world and so my view is public sector pensions and all pension provision is important and instead of a risk to the bottom where we see the worst pension provision in the private sector becoming the model i'd like to see a rising pension provision i'm saying it's a priority for people to have a decent retirement and that could be done in many ways cutting the renewal of trident for example would save us enough money to pay for those pensions for three

or four years in the tax gap where the richest people in britain avoid paying over one hundred billion a year would actually mean these pensions look fairly cheap in comparison and you mentioned the private sector and private sector workers say that actually the public sector has a very good deal when it comes to pensions a lot better than a lot of private sector provision do you think there's really public support for what you're doing really opinion polls seem to tell us already a majority of people actually believe the public sector pensions are important arriving at the right level or should even be higher that's incredible when you think of the propaganda we've had over the last two years from politicians in the media telling everybody the public sector pensions are the cause of people's problem my message to private sector workers is they're being exploited by their shareholders and by the company chiefs not by public sector. because pensions and we should have a campaign that seeks to drive all pension levels up not cut down to the worst possible line what would you accept in terms of pension reform what i personally

believe that it is not acceptable to make anyone to pay a penny more for their pension when the valuation of public sector pension schemes say they're costing less because it's not about pensions it's about raising taxes to solve the deficit i don't believe people should be forced to work longer i don't believe people should have the levers of their pension slashed so where we are in the talks at the moment unless the government fundamentally accepts they have to talk about those things then i believe the industrial action is going to take place you have said in fact that the government doesn't look like it's prepared to negotiate so what's the point of striking. when the point is to change their mind and saying you won't negotiate just when they are in a chat with a few people in a room is one thing saying you want to go see it when they could be millions of people taking strike action is entirely another we actually believe that the six million trade unionists plus the thousands and thousands or hundreds of thousands of pensioners and students all becoming a joint campaign is going to be prolifically very powerful we've already seen in

britain a march of one hundred or five hundred thousand people transformed the political mood in this country from march kindergarten our view is well what could strikes actually do how exactly do you think that march changed to political means it's transformed in that it was on the front page of the newspapers it was on every t.v. station and it gave people the confidence that however small the community and i have a small they have seen for example keeping alive they understood they were part of a much much wider problem and i think that's given us confidence to move from a march to a strike so it's clearly transforming not just people's confidence but the opinion polls clearly are shifting whereas a majority forcibly oppose strikes now in the most recent polls a majority says they are sympathetic to them i do. prices that we're seeing at the main cause certainly in part by a reckless financial services sector do you think there is political will now to create a mall responsible banking community. where i would always question whether the.

twenty three multimillionaires in that when they are cabinet members themselves who have benefited in the past by playing fast and loose with. all the ego clearly not morrow therefore i don't actually believe that there is a political will of this government to actually ensure that the rich should pay for the problems that the rich caused but the banking sector should pay for the problems the banking sector caused and as we're doing this interview i have members on fifteen thousand pounds a year struggling to make ends meet they don't have holidays facing having their pensions slashed when they see bankers who are already millionaires trousering millions more in bonuses that's got to be fundamentally unfair since the crisis began britain has entered into a new war in a foreign country and recently the british air force commander said that he needed more money to sustain a campaign in libya and also in afghanistan do you think there is a moral vacuum in westminster that causes these kinds of things to happen that the

government would cut spending at home and to enjoy another war abroad well i think there isn't any politico consistency quite clearly we have been told there were so strapped for cash everything that we hold dear has to be slashed and yet we can still talk about renewing trident and fighting wars overseas irrespective of the cost my own view is that the war in afghanistan and the current war in libya are wrong they misjudged what people claim are about and we should actually find a way out for those pretty quickly not make the situation in those countries worse as well as of the same time take valuable resources could go into schools and hospitals and finally you opposite number at unison the country's biggest union is stressing this wave of industrial action. are you prepared to join. yes we want more and more people to be involved because we want to be on strike because we want the government to step up and take notice so i very much welcome the comments of their practices you know send them along to work very closely with him on all the

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a. real life stories from world war two the most of. the true nineteen forty five dollars on t.v. dot com. he says. the debt crisis rages on both sides of the atlantic as eight european banks fail stress tests for their vulnerability to financial troubles while america nears its fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling. rupert murdoch floods the british media with i'm sorry messages days before a grilling by m.p. news over the news of the world phone hacking scandal meanwhile the furor moves across the atlantic with reports of nine eleven victims clones were targeted as continuing outrage and disgrace engulfs his once impregnable media empire.

and preparation work is underway to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the fold a river the operation is aimed at shedding more light on why the vessel sank with the loss of over one hundred thirty watts. and sports is next with unit. pretty happy with this this is sports there are plenty heads over the next ten minutes including. according hardship on her twenty second birthday russian tennis star least six reveals she's fighting cancer. capital clash the top two squads in world beach volleyball popular for supremacy in moscow with the clock ticking down ahead of next year's london olympics. on ticking the plunge one man's

quest to tackle the most extreme treks in the world to him among other destinations to siberia. but let's start with some news russian tennis player elise equivalent of us has revealed she has cancer the world number twenty eight choosing to make the announcement on her twenty second birthday. and played a match since me missing both the french open and wimbledon in a message on the job u.t.a. website the muscovite said she's being treated for hodgkin's lymphoma but i'm glad she was hopeful she may have a chance to return to the sport if treatment is successful over the next few months . our very best to her let's move to golf for darren clarke will enter the last day of this year's british open as the man to catch the overnight leader firing off rounds of sixty nine on saturday to ensure he would take a one stroke lead into the final day justin johnson taking the lead from cork and one stage three in the back nine but northern irishman clarke wrestled it back with

a twelve foot putt on the fourth being told rickie fowler and thomas bjorn like two shots behind american johnson with a lurking well kevin is alongside lucas glover tied for fifth. pole and scottish midfielder charlie adam has opened his goal scoring a card for liverpool as the reds thrashed out malaysian selected six. three in a pre-season friendly former bloc pool not getting the net from the spot midway through the first half an equaliser from a free kick the hosts back on level terms shortly before the break. however it was essentially one we trust for the restart even end dog getting twice as many minutes before. with a sliding fourth goal for liverpool a comfortable four one margin by then i look at the top score mohammad saffi served up a quick brace of the bench to put malaysia within a cool or whatever stoppage time put an end to become i guess heading home his

second of the night here. then completed the six three scoreline with just thirty seconds left on the clock six three. where no two thirds of the way through this year's tour de france on its belgian cyclists yellow to celebrating after claiming his main stage win on saturday the victory after a stage fourteen also saw the media from a lot of rather good sort of a king of the classification just two points ahead of spain samuel sanchez who trailed by twenty one seconds to come in second was third fastest twenty five seconds further back local hopeful thomas voeckler retained the yellow jersey after finishing with the public. misty may trainer and kerry walsh of won the leg of the world teach a volleyball tour the reading alone pick champions upsetting the current world number one pairing brazil's arrest giuliana richard from poor fate took

a seat at the auction. the most her round of the world beach volleyball troll has become a regular fixture of the russian capital some a sporting calendar cover the ones for competition reaches its business and a lack of russians backyard for medals as unfortunate become an all too familiar occurrence this year was to prove no exception and time is running out of the london olympics to to get underway in just a year's time however the reigning olympic champions misty mane kerry walsh are optimistic that russia could start to improve soon i was here last summer they actually have a good kids program you know development program and they're just they're catching up to the rest the world but india is their big things so there is a developmental program in the works and they are bringing players that are just taking you know it's take a little time but. this and they get tools and the developmental said you know we

play to rest until this weekend they're so young and they. know the last russia could do well to take a leaf out of china's book it's called doesn't have a long tradition in either country however china just trying to in practically every sport but made fantastic strides in the two thousand and eight beijing bronze medalist explained why. that's about. half an hour with a partner. who she couldn't make it all way to the final but they were played italian pair of mini gotti and she chalabi the bronze medal. the chinese would easily take the first chance they started in a second to regain their composure when it matters most said the decider and seal first place. over the main event of the days of the reigning world champions lisa and brianna from brazil take on the current and it gold medal is this team a kerry walsh of the u.s. saying. the american jew have been in the formless here for the. it back

brilliantly to seal a one sided much in straight sets and gain a much needed confidence boost for the london olympics just from the corner but i think that's what's driving us right now you know and i know i think about it every time every day i'm saying but i'm not overlooking anything but the every time god medalist and i swear the emmys if that nobody's going to see what we're capable of so i want to like you you are saying they have a very brazilian rival to rid of the season. the crowd was fairly entertained however those fans will be hoping one day they'll be able to achieve a victory of a russian jew hopefully this will happen sooner rather than may turn hopefully don't see. any rugby union fan knows new zealand are the team who play in black their prime minister has branded england a bunch of water for the reveals they will wear the color for at least one of their

games at this autumn's world cup it went well were this away strip for the clash with argentina on september tenth. my bros after all the kiwi scene here a lot of meat locker color since eighteen seventy four being assured we did consult the all blacks before making the decision but new zealand's prime minister says england are playing at shady king. i think it's a bunch of want to be easy actually there's only one team that was. surprised that . the good news is they kept going to play the time so i. feel they should stick to what mary fighting talk from the pm well moving on where moto g.p. standings leader casey stoner how secured his sixth pole of the season after prevailing in qualifying for sunday's german grand prix was a title session at the session ring a string former world champion story aging i wrestle hundred teammate dummy. while title holder who will complete the front. early pacesetter marco simoncelli is set

the story from fourth on the grid despite dominating both of his decisions. and finally get a load of this world champion kayaker some certain enjoys taking his sports would be extreme exploring their remotest parts of the globe including siberia here in russia. ports of amman who dare to dream. all is calm and quiet it looks like paradise on earth but seems like these are rather an exception for much more to cayuga grueling rapids and plunge waterfalls what these adrenaline junkies are after and the best of them all the young and very new zealander sam sutton has been looking for the ultimate challenge at twenty two he's the reigning extreme car i can roll champion and he set out on a global johnny to find the toughest waterway the reason the so-called real god the world renowned niagara falls could spell certain death for a rower so since quest began in siberia russia we're just faced with huge amounts

of what are you looking down is really is i mean if faces the wall of water you can't even see where you're going you can't see any of your teammates because you're down in the hollow and it's just like pedaling against god's hair and you know it's just out there trying to take it out and you just got to be strong and get through it not to want to settle for anything in between salmon coach was arguably the most modern river in russia called the couse filled with obstacles it has a dark history of claim in people's lives but luckily for sam go into on the bosh talismans only a life changing experience. for the whole expression you're looking down at the river oh he's a russian scout from within and you're just thinking about friends that you lost in the river and then what's really important to you in life you know it at that stage you just see life clarity with all the treacherous turns negotiated in the. sand moved on to iceland geysers are the first thing that made pop into mind but after

the street what a full should be the other one some of them higher than an eight story building so free falling off them and heating the water again is not dissimilar to a car crash and survived and is what gives these man this softer thrills what survives coming through in your prayers reset and or worse that motions that you just call good thing. gold come through it's just you know the risk i definitely was smaller than the rewards and the report is just so great it may seem worthwhile if that wasn't an obscene ventured further into the mexican jungle and it is then that the new zealander found she's really a college to shock and blue waters of the across and provide in the cascades of his dreams some even discovered and want to fold it had never been caught on before and should be happy at least for now but more defined inventions sure to come build on . watching that sometimes i'm happy just to be here i'm a nice quiet little studio

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